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  • Matt Hart’s Heartfelt Review of Paul Violi

    May 4, 2012

    Matt Hart is one of the readers at the season finale of the KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry series next week. Here's an excerpt from his review of Paul Violi’s Overnight in ColdFrontMag: <<Violi…

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  • Der Bingle was geboren today, wirklich

    May 4, 2012

      words and music by Frank Loesser

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  • My Emily Dickinson by Timothy O’Keefe

    May 4, 2012

    The earth has many keys. Where melody is not Is the unknown peninsula. Beauty is nature's fact.   But witness for the land, And witness for the sea, The cricket is her utmost Of…

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  • Stacey’s personality test

    May 3, 2012

    (1) It is 2012. You follow your boss at a sales conference. Throughout her presentation – on marketing a new DVD of Oliver Stone’s JFK – she makes wildly erroneous statements, e.g. that Gerald…

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  • Some Wild Embrace by Timothy O’Keefe

    May 3, 2012

    “Poetry is the impossibility of plainness, in plainest form.” —Susan Howe   I come back to Howe’s definition often and eagerly. For reassurance, for solidarity, for hope. It seems to me a singular, aphoristic…

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  • This just in . . . Nin Andrews’ “Thups” featured on NPR.org

    May 2, 2012

    (Ed note:  NPR's All Things Considered's contest has a simple premise: Listeners send in original short stories that can be read in three minutes or less. This week is Round 8, for which contestants…

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